Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is a polygamous sect straddling the Utah and Arizona state lines; the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, are known collectively as Short Creek (pronounced "crick"). One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. The knowledge that one's children are likely to be born with conditions like this one does not prevent FLDS couples from becoming pregnant; instead, they see it as a responsibility and blessing to have many children. There was also testimony, during one hearing, that someone in the Kingston clan wanted to blow up the courthouse. "Another of Rugg's full sisters, Andrea Johnson, died in 1992 of complications of pre-eclampsia, a condition of pregnancy that was not treated until after the young girl, swollen with toxic fluid, was rushed to the emergency unit at University Hospital. Men make all decisions affecting her health. This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. . "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. Have you also noticed all the genetic and other debilitating defects, deformities and diseases that comes along with your poisoned patriarchal plurality-of-wives club? The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. "Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston--John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell--has been criminally charged with incest. Although the official stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is against polygamy, several of the women's stories reveal that LDS leaders dismiss the deviant sects and blame the women who come to them for help. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. "Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding. . Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . . Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. "'It would have been unusual if he wasn't using artificial insemination in his herd, and by virtue of that, was probably using semen from some bulls that had been inbred,' says Dennis Green, a professor of beef cattle genetics at Colorado State University. . . These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. 'I really doubt that if we could tell them, you know, "This male has the condition and this female has the condition; you shouldn't mate," that wouldn't stop them,' he said. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. . Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. . During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series "Escaping Polygamy," remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a . The two were playmates when they were boys. . "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. The defect might be caused by genetics, infection, radiation, or drug exposure, or there might be no known reason. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. The brother missionaries have been in the habit of picking out the prettiest women for themselves before they get here, and bringing on the ugly ones for us; hereafter you have to bring them all here before taking any of them, and let us all have a fair shake. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. "It was . She knows that they're. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "Among the polygamous Kingstons, a number of children have been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two uteruses but no vaginal or bowel opening. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. Her younger sister Emily thought it was a joke, too, until one day another Order kid told her, We cant play with you because the Tuckers are n------.. . Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . They can't sit up. . ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. I could see that the leaders of The Order really did believe we had black ancestors, Ron explained, with Christy next to him, and his adult daughters Emily and Julie nearby. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . Former Order members tell of babies being born nearly every week in the church. 'We do know there are biological hazards. In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). . Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. . [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. . During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series Escaping Polygamy, remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring. . Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . . Certainly if MORmON Jesus had done this, we would hear all about it from the LDS as *proof* that God was doing his modern work via MORmONISM, but alas there is no such manifestation ! For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' Fumarase deficiency (FD) is an autosomal metabolic recessive disorder, meaning it is necessary for an individual with the condition to receive the mutant allele from both parents. ", (Joseph Carroll, "One in Four Americans Think Most Mormons Endorse Polygamy; Only 2% Think Most Americans Support Polygamy," by Gallup News Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 7 September 2006, at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e). He believed he had superior bloodlines.' Some read simply, "Baby Keate," or "Baby Bateman," or "Baby Cooke," with holes where numeric date tiles might otherwise be placed. Elden also instituted the church law of one above the other, requiring members blind obedience to the churchs hierarchy of numbered men, with Elden being Brother Number One. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. Known variously as Brother Paul, the leader, and the man on the watchtower by Order members, this unremarkable, balding middle-aged man reportedly has 27 wives and over 300 children. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. Hospital harm., While part of The Order, Val Snow, a twenty-something gay man with a wry sense of humor, believed being gay was like spitting in the eye of God. Snow is the son of Daniel Kingston, whom he paints as a little man with a lot of power.. for Nathanael Allred's baby. I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. "The discoveries and research within my own kindred so alarmed me that I studied other descendants of polygamy to see if their families also suffered from crippling illnesses. . . One of her brothers married a woman whose grandmother is a sister to their father. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. . . "Other possible genetic traits include: microcephaly, a malformation of the skull in which the infant has a small head (ex-members say two children with microcephaly have died and eight others are institutionalized); blindness; spina bifida; Down syndrome; kidney disease and abnormal leg and arm joints. The Kingstons teach that they are descended from Jesus Christ and these incestous marriages are intended to keep the bloodline pure, but instead have resulted in numerous Clan members being born with disabilties or birth defects, and it's not really that surprising to note that at one point during the second season of Escaping Polygamy, one of 6.3M views 6 years ago Profiles by VICE S1 E23 Although the mainstream Mormon church abandoned polygamy over 100 years ago, many splinter groups across Utah still practice plural marriage. Somehow LaDonnas curse was transferred to the Tuckers via Christy, Rons wife, because, Christys mom left The Order and married an Irishman, before leaving him and returning to the fold. . Below are further horrific details of the Kingston clan's "God-given genetic calamity, brought to you courtesy of Joseph Smith's Mormonism, as reported in the "Salt Lake Tribune" article, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet": ". soon . The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. . While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . A 1999 Salt Lake Tribune article mapped the Kingstons incestuous family tree, quoting one of Ortells 65 kids, ex-Order member Connie Rugg as saying, My father experimented [with] inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. . Okay, I have one legal wife, he said. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. on the history of the fundamentalist community. Could my childish intuition that the adults and doctors lips were sealed against my questions involve family secrets; secrets relatives took to their graves rather than betray? . The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. . states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. [in order] to reduce competition for wives. SALT LAKE CITY (CN) Survivors of Utah's notorious Kingston clan filed a lawsuit seeking punitive damages against 22 Kingston members on Wednesday for sex trafficking minors born into the organization, sexual battery, child abuse and more. "Our ancestral destiny meant we might give birth to sons who would die at maturity or daughters who would carry the trait to the next generation of sons. "The few dissenters in the community say the serious genetic problems that are beginning to surface are an indication that the closed FLDS society could eventually collapse. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. . . "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. "Genetics of Incest: Pre-eclampsia is a condition that can be traced genetically from one generation to the next and is prevalent among some Kingstons, Rugg says. . Consanguinity causes aggregate clusters of deleterious genes to collect in families, which then express themselves as rare recessive disorders like nephritis, cystic fibrosis, biliary artesia, albinism, short stature and many others. "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. . ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer, which produces sniper rifles and so-called bullpup rifles, The latter, unlike conventional magazine-fed rifles, have shorter barrels, with the guns action located behind the trigger. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. . . Naming a father could expose the truth, unveil secrets of paternity and subject the clan to further scrutiny from those who don't approve of incest. Since the natural male-to-female ratio is roughly 50-50, the ratio must be manipulated so that there are more females than males for polygamy to work. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. October 15, 2002: "There will be a viewing at father's house at 3p.m. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. From an "Associated Press" news report, "Doctor: Birth Defects Increase in Polygamy Community": "A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border, according to a doctor who has treated many of the children. They offer no support, no exit route and no programs for the people trapped inside polygamy endeavoring to escape these closed polygamous communities or compounds. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. . "A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border, according to a doctor who has treated many of the children. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". "There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece," she continues. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. Many of the souls interred here lived not longer than a day, some just two days, two weeks, or two years. . ", "They took their lives," Ron says. "It is Moore-Emmett's belief that the LDS Church who started polygamy in this country should take responsibility and provide financial aid and other resources for those polygamous families who have been abused. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. . . "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. . 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. Julie left the cult at age 19. Additionally, ex-Order members tell of a reputed church prophecy of an End of the World War, an apocalyptic vision that foresees a bloody race war with the Kingstons as the ultimate victors, chosen by their Heavenly Father to rule the world for a millennium. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. In 2006, Warren Jeffs, then the president and prophet of the FLDS, was arrested and charged with accomplice rape, for just two of the underage marriages he had arranged. The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . Now, let's examine how "God-ordained" Mormon polygamy has wreaked unholy genetic havoc on its faithful followers: --Case Study on Polygamous Mormonism's Genetic Disease Striking Home: The Linda Walker Story. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. One man, who asks to remain nameless to protect his and his family's privacy, describes a lifetime of round-the-clock care and too-frequent hospital visits for his five sons. Obviously, we would love to.. . _____, --How "God's Genes" Do Ugly Things: The Biological Attack on "Modern"-day Followers of Mormonism's Originally-"Revealed" Doctrine of Polygamy. ". "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." If these couples are . But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . The lawyers words call to mind another heavenly curse, described in 2 Nephi, Chapter 5 of the Book of Mormon, where God caused a skin of blackness to come upon a group called the Lamanites, supposedly ancestors of Native Americans. The Latter Day Church of Christ, is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. "The disease is not widely known about even in Colorado City, a place where even normally public events such as marriages are conducted in secret. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. . . Also known as the LDCJC, the Kingston Clan, and The Order, it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. . And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . Two are nieces. But in a 2News . They ought to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices; and it is not to be wondered at that they should envy those who so much better understand the social relations. "'Incest as a policy or routine practice is rare,' says Melvin Williams, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and a leading expert in the study of kinship systems. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. . "Some genes linked to conditions like microcephaly and dwarfism are 'autosomal recessive,' and are found among the 22-linked pairs of chromosomes that do not include the X and Y sex chromosomes, says Lynn Jorde of the University of Utah's Eccles Human Genetics Institute, a leading genetics research center. A fifth child, they say, was fathered by their eldest brother Wayne LeBaron, (who was married to Dawna Black Bistline's cousin at the time of this child's allegedly incestuous conception). . 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. But The Orders critics say that cult members see nothing wrong with bilking the government, a time-honored tradition among FLDS sects, gleefully referred to as bleeding the beast.. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. . . a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' From the article, "Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions": "[Mormon] Church founder, Joseph Smith, said he received a revelation from God, which is still canonized Mormon scripture as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132. Let's revisit the boastful words of Mormon Church Prophet John Taylor and Mormon Church Apostle Heber C. Kimball, both quoted earlier: -Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. . Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. . 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. Through his brother LyleBishop of the FLDS and mouthpiece for his imprisoned brotherJeffs enacted a Judgment wherein FLDS members were asked a series of bizarre personal questions; their answers were judged, and the most righteous were welcomed into the United Order of FLDS elite. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. . . Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. . . "The widespread presence of the fumarase deficiency gene in the bloodlines of the founding families of Colorado City is going to make reaching any such goal extremely difficult. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. 5, p. 22. . died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. _____. So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. : About half of the 8,000 people living in the towns are blood relatives of two of the founding families that settled in the 1930s on the desolate high desert plateau against the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. But given that the Kingstons command an estimated 6,000 adherents, boast a business empire reportedly worth as much as $1 billion and have outlasted myriad bouts with law enforcement and the press, these dreams of world domination may be less delusional than they first seem. "Two years later, a pair of geneticists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., flew to Utah where they hoped to stage a seminar for Kingston family members about the dangers of incest and birth defects, and, presumably, gain permission to study the clan. . In addition to this issue, since the rulers . Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. That will open up for The Order to rise up and take over the world, Ron said. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. "'My guess is this man had used some of these inbreeding practices in his herd so he was probably in the camp that believed superior genetics could be propagated in a particular line,' Green says. 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